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CDC
2010
IEEE
136views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Pathologies of temporal difference methods in approximate dynamic programming
Approximate policy iteration methods based on temporal differences are popular in practice, and have been tested extensively, dating to the early nineties, but the associated conve...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
152views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
14 years 10 months ago
Learning styles and performance in the introductory programming sequence
This paper reports on the implication of different preferred learning styles on students'performance in the introductory programming sequence and on work in progress on how t...
Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, John Woodbury, Emma ...
GECCO
2007
Springer
213views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Genetically programmed learning classifier system description and results
An agent population can be evolved in a complex environment to perform various tasks and optimize its job performance using Learning Classifier System (LCS) technology. Due to the...
Gregory Anthony Harrison, Eric W. Worden
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ICML
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Space-indexed dynamic programming: learning to follow trajectories
We consider the task of learning to accurately follow a trajectory in a vehicle such as a car or helicopter. A number of dynamic programming algorithms such as Differential Dynami...
J. Zico Kolter, Adam Coates, Andrew Y. Ng, Yi Gu, ...
KDD
2007
ACM
197views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
15 years 11 months ago
Learning the kernel matrix in discriminant analysis via quadratically constrained quadratic programming
The kernel function plays a central role in kernel methods. In this paper, we consider the automated learning of the kernel matrix over a convex combination of pre-specified kerne...
Jieping Ye, Shuiwang Ji, Jianhui Chen